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Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Ecologists
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Lesson Contribution: Update 04-quality-control.md #307

Closed Talishask closed 2 years ago

Talishask commented 2 years ago

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hoytpr commented 2 years ago

Hi @ZineSapula and thanks for your contribution! (and thanks @Talishask ).

I think this looks fine and don't mind merging it in but I guess my question is "Why semicolons?" Is there a common software package that specifically uses semi-colons? (I know .VCF files do, but also tabs). We could use lots of delimiters (commas, colons, pipes). Should we mention them all, or, are semicolons needed in this particular case?

I hope this doesn't sound confrontational or dismissive! Maybe we SHOULD mention more delimiters, because the cut command and other shell commands use them.

Thanks again!

Peter

ZineSapula commented 2 years ago

Hi Pete

A semicolon is an addition, some versions use a semicolon. I have experienced that when teaching that in some learners spreadsheet changes happen when a semicolon is used instead of a comma. I would suggest that we add a semicolon to the existing list, add more delimiters I agree.

Regards Zine

From: Pete @.> Sent: Wednesday, 09 March 2022 21:14 To: datacarpentry/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson @.> Cc: Zine Sapula @.>; Mention @.> Subject: Re: [datacarpentry/spreadsheet-ecology-lesson] Lesson Contribution: Update 04-quality-control.md (#307)

Hi @ZineSapulahttps://github.com/ZineSapula and thanks for your contribution! (and thanks @Talishaskhttps://github.com/Talishask ).

I think this looks fine and don't mind merging it in but I guess my question is "Why semicolons?" Is there a common software package that specifically uses semi-colons? (I know .VCF files do, but also tabs). We could use lots of delimiters (commas, colons, pipes). Should we mention them all, or, are semicolons needed in this particular case?

I hope this doesn't sound confrontational or dismissive! Maybe we SHOULD mention more delimiters, because the cut command and other shell commands use them.

Thanks again!

Peter

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